To date, much effort has been made to overcome obstacles involved in inferring the provenance of sediments based on heavy mineral assemblages and geochemical fingerprints of minerals. These efforts have been concentrated on two main avenues. First, efforts have focused on disentangling physical and chemical properties of minerals and their behavior during transport. Second, efforts have centered on processing the obtained data in a way that takes into account the properties of heavy minerals and geochemical data sets. More specifically, to consider the limitations that arise from the nature of point count and compositional data. In this manuscript, a novel workflow for provenance is proposed based on the fact that point count data, although not compositional, carry compositional information. A case study is presented to infer the provenance of late Quaternary eolian sands from the southeastern Adriatic archipelago for which two different sources have been previously proposed. Heavy mineral data were represented in orthonormal log ratio coordinates. In this way, variables which compensate for hydraulic sorting and/or selective dissolution were obtained, with the major advantage that there are no restrictions for their use with statistical methods originally developed for real Euclidian space. To support conclusions based on heavy mineral data, we analyzed the geochemical composition of pyroxenes, which were also discriminated using a novel approach. As a result, the Albania-Montenegro shelf is determined to be a sediment source for eolian sands from Korčula, Lastovo and Mljet Islands. Hvar Island has a Neretva River signature, and Vis Island has a dominantly Neretva River signature with a small portion of sediments from the Albania-Montenegro shelf.

迄今为止，已经做出了很多努力来克服基于重矿物组合和矿物地球化学指纹推断沉积物来源所涉及的障碍。这些努力集中在两个主要途径上。首先，努力集中于解开矿物的物理和化学性质及其在运输过程中的行为。其次，努力集中在以考虑重矿物和地球化学数据集的特性的方式处理获得的数据上。更具体地说，要考虑由点计数和成分数据的性质引起的限制。在这份手稿中，基于点计数数据虽然不是组成的，但携带组成信息的事实，提出了一种新颖的出处工作流程。提出了一个案例研究，以推断亚得里亚海东南部群岛晚第四纪风成砂的来源，之前已提出了两个不同的来源。重矿物数据以正交对数比坐标表示。通过这种方式，获得了补偿水力分选和/或选择性溶解的变量，其主要优点是对最初为真实欧几里得空间开发的统计方法的使用没有限制。为了支持基于重矿物数据的结论，我们分析了辉石的地球化学成分，也使用新方法对其进行了区分。因此，阿尔巴尼亚-黑山陆架被确定为科尔丘拉、拉斯托沃和姆列特群岛风成砂的沉积源。赫瓦尔岛有内雷特瓦河的标志，